Fiendish and funny and filled to the brim with twists, turns, and red herrings, Ira Levin's long-running hit Broadway play was finally adapted for the screen in this stellar production from 1982. Michael Caine plays Sidney Bruhl, the washed-up mystery writer desperate for a hit, and Christopher Reeve is the former student who's written a play so flawless that "even a gifted director couldn't ruin it," as Sidney observes. Sidney Lumet keeps the wonderfully convoluted plot moving throughout, and Dyan Cannon is convincing as Sidney's relentlessly anxious wife.